by Bill Farley | Apr 25, 2022 | Sanctification
WHEN MY DAUGHTERS WERE LITTLE we bought them glow-in-the-dark lizards. This was a big deal in 1980. After the plastic toys sat under a lamp or out in the sun for a few hours they would somehow absorb the light. When night came they would glow, sometimes for hours....
by Bill Farley | Apr 1, 2022 | love, Sanctification, theology
ONE OF THE MOST PRACTICAL VERSES in the Bible is Jude 21. It begins, “Keep yourself in the love of God.” Notice, it is a command, not a suggestion. Why does the Holy Spirit feel the need to command this? Because we easily slip out of the daily experience...
by mark | Feb 10, 2022 | Sanctification
WE LIVE IN A FITNESS-CRAZED CULTURE. Many spend thousands on Pelotons, treadmills, or weight lifting equipment. It is good to take care of our bodies. God created them and we are responsible to steward his creation. But the apostle Paul is convinced that although...
by Bill Farley | Nov 30, 2020 | Humility, Sanctification
HYPOCRISY IS A DESTRUCTIVE SIN. How many churches have been destroyed by a leader’s hypocrisy? How many unbelievers have been repelled from Christ because of a “believing” friend’s hypocrisy? How often has the budding faith of a new convert...
by Bill Farley | Apr 25, 2020 | Christian Ministry, Leadership, Sanctification
THE BIBLICAL GOAL OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP is the glory of God radiating from a local church. The question is, how best to accomplish this? What tools do we have at our disposal? The 9Marks (expository preaching, evangelism, church membership, and church...
by mark | Aug 1, 2019 | Sanctification, theology, Uncategorized
This is part one in a series of posts on the subject of God and what he is really like. Sequential posts will follow. THE IDEA FOR THIS SERIES germinated in my thinking thirty years ago. At the time I was struggling to reconcile the apparent wrath and brutality of God...
